Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov criticized the head of the Intercontinental Olympic Committee Thomas Bach for suggestions on suspension of Russian athletes.
“When the president of the Intercontinental Olympic Committee states that we will make your mind up later on on the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in our occasions, depending on how the political predicament evolves, it is a immediate disregard for the rules of the IOC constitution, which includes the inadmissibility of involving any political thought and political second in the progress of the sports activities motion and sports activities federations.
This is related to levels of competition, I think, no less than the drive to “punish” the Russian Federation and Belarus, to eliminate competition.
Quickly there will currently be transgender people today, and you really don’t fully grasp in which to indicator up, in which corporation. I think any regular particular person, and most of them in the West, just after all, have an understanding of that this is a worthless policy and that something requirements to be finished about it, ”Lavrov reported in a meeting with MGIMO learners and lecturers.
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